Professional Groups

Events

We organise a number of evening seminars throughout the year as well as running student essay competitions.

Below is a list of events organised in the past by the Physics and Law Group:

Holes, Heffalumps, and Pooh; Why we need good forensic science
6:30 pm, 10 May 2007
The Ada Lovelace Room, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT

Further information

Evening Seminar
Title: ID Cards - Scientific and legal aspects of security and identity
Date: 23 March 2006

Student Essay Competition 2005
The third annual student essay competition of the Physics and Law Group was entitled "Should physicist be responsible for the environmental impact of their research?". The competition was won by Adam Saeed Iqbal from Hertford College, Oxford. The two runners-up were Christopher Jackson from University of Nottingham and Ding Yang from Queens' College Cambridge.

Evening Seminar
Title: Scientists and Environmental Law
Date: 19 May 2005

Evening Seminar
Title: Legal Advice - Getting It Right
Date: 19 April 2005
One of the speakers, Simon Roberts, has made his Power Point Presentation available for download.  

Student Essay Competition 2004
The second annual student essay competition of the Physics and Law Group was entitled "Do Intellectual Property Rights hinder or help physics research?". The winner of the competition was Jane Mei-Ling Douglas from Warwick University. The two runners-up were Scott England from University of Leicester and Elizabeth Kelsey from Imperial College London.

Evening Seminar
Title: Physics and the Forensic Science Service®
Date: 13 May 2004

Evening Seminar
Title: It’s law Captain but not as we know it! – Extraterrestrial Exploration and the Law
Date: 20 November 2003

Student Essay Competition 2003
The first annual student essay competition of the Physics & Law Group of the Institute of Physics was entitled "Should ideas be owned". The competition was won narrowly by David Grainger of St Peter's College, Oxford. The runners-up were: David Shanks of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Paul Carr of University of York and; Steven Mills of Imperial College London.

Evening Seminar
Title: How to launch a spin-out: views of a venture capitalist and an inventor
Date: 10 June 2003

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